AAAAAAAH!lexander

i’ve visited quartzite a few times and never knew about the red ghost, damn now i wanna go back

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions

"Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Hand holding two stickers, “Halloween Voter 2025” and “Board of Elections Voter Early!”

okay that would’ve worked on me too

i didn’t appreciate how much ground this generalized mistrust of all politicians shared with the “enlightened centrist” bunch.

another one for the "threatening us with a good time" file

Outsider looks like its web shop is down for a move, but I had no issues pre-ordering from brick and mortar. Excited for February!

as a person disproportionately interested in keeping magic's original IP alive, and book-enjoyer more generally, this thread has me convinced. where's the best place to pre-order this?

this whole grokipedia development mostly reminds me i haven’t checked in on conservapedia or encyclopedia dramatica in more than decade, probably for the best

The fake ads are the best part of subscribing to The Onion print version.

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

(i’m aware shame doesn’t work on republicans, but the endless gormless acceptance of their feigned ignorance is infuriating)

we really need to normalize asking follow-up questions, e.g. “how do you understand the oversight duty of congress? would someone who bothered to be informed better serve then american people?”

YouTube video by Michael Reeves chatgpt has E-stroke

i can only hope this heralds a bright new era of llm poisoning youtube.com/shorts/WP5_X...

for the uninitiated; frank wilhoit (not the author, a particularly canny blogged by the same name) wrote:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

another spectacular illustration of wilhoit’s law

i’ve seen lots of keming before, this is the rare instance of ker ning

this should really be part of a series of “internet heritage minutes” in the same spirit as the Canadian ones

“Do you really expect Mamdani to get everything he’s promising done?”

No. I’m sure a lot of what I want won’t happen. But I’m ready for someone who’s willing to actually fucking try rather than tell everyone why trying is pointless and must be saved for an undefined later moment

this post is not even two months old and has already cemented itself as the defining theory for american governance in this decade

raze it to the ground or convert it into something utterly antithetical to the man, like the nation’s largest soup kitchen for the unhoused

just a stream of tropes tenuously linked by correlation, with tons of shit clipping through stuff, and insane text. we all love taking the sublone to uptoown, you know, with the *squints* italian dele

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

i think you're right. they'd be forced to go find information rather than breathlessly reporting what was said, which has become the default mode of coverage

Bushy Tenderfoot, a Magic the gathering card

agreed. also we should be able to run the kamigawa flip friends as commanders

i literally can’t see a post formatted like this without immediately trying to figure out which item is candles.

A sign posted outside of an underwater cave with the grim reaper and the text “STOP • PREVENT YOUR DEATH! GO NO FARTHER. FACT: More than 300 divers, including open water scuba instructors, have died in caves just like this one. You needed training to dive. You need FACT: cave training and cave equipment to cave dive. Without cave training and cave FACT: equipment, divers can die here. FACT: I CAN happen to YOU! THERE'S NOTHING IN THIS CAVE WORTH DYING FOR! DO NOT GO BEYOND THIS POINT.”

not my photo, but I’ve encountered a version of this sign while in the water and uh.. it worked, screw that noise

i misread this as “planter ads” and spent like 5 mins wondering when the peanut guy became a secret nazi and worked for blackwater

how many visual metaphors this dude need for “destruction of respected institutions”

knocking back a few aerosol ones with the boys after mom kicks you out of the basement, what could be better

i did not expect to have to search “diarrhea jet president” to figure out what’s going on, but that’s 2025